The Toxic News e-magazine was conceived as a result of the interdisciplinary and international European Research Commission (ERC)-funded project Toxic Expertise, which ran between 2015 and 2020, and examined competing claims about the health effects of pollution, focusing on the global petrochemical industry. As researchers seeking to make sense of a particular set of concerns within the wide-ranging area of ‘toxic’ studies, we put together this magazine as a forum for discussion and debate.
Throughout its history, the Toxic News editorial team has included Alice Mah, Professor of Sociology at the Univeristy of Warwick and Principal Investigator of Toxic Expertise, and Toxic Expertise research team members David Brown, Thom Davies, Lorenzo Feltrin, Calvin Jephcote, Loretta Lou, Thomas Verbeek, and Xinhong Wang.